<div>Why don't you just create a database view of the information and make it available via a web service and your users would always have up to date information.</div>
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<div>Linda<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 26, 2007 3:12 PM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix <<a href="mailto:jlacroix@mapgears.com">jlacroix@mapgears.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi,<br><br>You have a great resource of examples here:<br><a href="http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/" target="_blank">
http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/</a><br><br>Check the markersTextLayer.html example to have an example of a layer<br>that comes from a csv file.<br>(<a href="http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/markersTextLayer.html" target="_blank">
http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/markersTextLayer.html</a>)<br><br>There's also use gml (see the gml-layer.html) if you prefer xml files.<br><br>Julien<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>Bradley McLain wrote:<br>> Ok what I am trying to do is to have a progress database dump all<br>> relevant information about various locations in some form of text file<br>> nightly.<br>
><br>> I then want to use OpenLayers to read from/query this file and display<br>> the relevant information.<br>><br>> I was wondering if this is possible to do, can OpenLayers read/query a<br>> text file such as a csv or xml?
<br>><br>> Cheers<br>><br>> Brad<br>><br>><br></div></div>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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